After the "OMG We're Being Sued By Microsoft" thing that slashdot and userfriendly did (last year? year before?), I think they may be a little afraid to post anything that isn't blatantly obvious.
As a side note, why do people bother posting these repetitive and boring "Slashdot sucks!" notes? If you think it sucks, why are you here? What the hell is going on?
Well.. to follow your logic, I guess we should respect the AIDS virus? It has been icing people for 20 years, but I still wouldn't want to sit down and have a conversation with one.
Actually, that is the whole point.. whether or not we can have a conversation. I personally talk to animals, but they don't talk back much. However, if a peaceful alien race showed up on our doorstep one day, I don't think respect would be an issue. They made it here, didn't they? If we can talk to them, they will become in our minds more 'human' or at least be put on an equal standing. It has been a long time since I read Orson Scott Card's Ender series, but as I recall he had designations for alien races depending on how well we could understand each other. As he says, and as history has proven, communication is the key. If you can't talk, you will end up either ignoring or killing each other.
> SOMETHING has to be done about chaos in our electoral process.
Definitely. For starters, let's get rid of the electoral college. IMHO, the main problem with our electoral process is that someone can win the popular vote and lose the election.
This idea of using computers to vote has so many problems I don't even know where to start. But, it is well-known (i thought) that any system that can be accessed by an authorized user can be broken into. Period.
We should try to fix the current system rather than blindly throwing technology at it. Something as important as the election process should be very, very simple, not full of cool 'features'.
First of all, I am a linux geek and I honestly don't know much about Windows security. However, if it works as well as everything else in Windows then it's a wonder your average 2yo can't take over an NT domain.
That said, this is my personal experience with Windows' granular security. I work graveyards at a national ISP in the network operations center. In the daytime my computer (running NT) is used by an admin. Of course a peon like me can't have full access to an admin's machine, so it has been locked down in my profile. As it stands, I can't use corporate mail because I can't log in to the exchange server. I can't install anything. I can't use AIM because I don't have access to my own buddy lists. I can't use ICQ because I can't install it. I can put files on my desktop but then I can't delete them unless I drop into a dos shell. Etc, etc, etc.
Perhaps this is all due to the incompetence of the admin. However, when I look at how easy permissions are to set up in Linux, I have to think that either NT permissions are crap or I am being actively sabotaged by the admin. The admin is a pretty nice guy, so...:P
silver
PS - The CEO made the decision to put NT in the NOC, not the admins. They all have Linux or BeOS as well.
I was given the impression in school that the interview was an acceptable means by which to acquire information. If you are writing a paper on the development of the Internet, why would you not consult people who actually do some of the work?/. would seem to be an incredible resource in that regard.
I'm sure that the people that are complaining here are the same people that complain in some way about every topic. I know I shouldn't respond to trolls and flamers, but I just couldn't resist in this case.
Slashdot Mirror
Good quote. However, that was written by Lazarus Long, not Robert Heinlein.
Sheesh, people. Get your sources straight.
Couldn't this be defended on the basis of prior art?
"This piece of Earth has been here significantly longer than copyright law has existed. So.. *thbt*"
After the "OMG We're Being Sued By Microsoft" thing that slashdot and userfriendly did (last year? year before?), I think they may be a little afraid to post anything that isn't blatantly obvious.
As a side note, why do people bother posting these repetitive and boring "Slashdot sucks!" notes? If you think it sucks, why are you here? What the hell is going on?
Well.. to follow your logic, I guess we should respect the AIDS virus? It has been icing people for 20 years, but I still wouldn't want to sit down and have a conversation with one.
Actually, that is the whole point.. whether or not we can have a conversation. I personally talk to animals, but they don't talk back much. However, if a peaceful alien race showed up on our doorstep one day, I don't think respect would be an issue. They made it here, didn't they? If we can talk to them, they will become in our minds more 'human' or at least be put on an equal standing. It has been a long time since I read Orson Scott Card's Ender series, but as I recall he had designations for alien races depending on how well we could understand each other. As he says, and as history has proven, communication is the key. If you can't talk, you will end up either ignoring or killing each other.
> SOMETHING has to be done about chaos in our electoral process.
Definitely. For starters, let's get rid of the electoral college. IMHO, the main problem with our electoral process is that someone can win the popular vote and lose the election.
This idea of using computers to vote has so many problems I don't even know where to start. But, it is well-known (i thought) that any system that can be accessed by an authorized user can be broken into. Period.
We should try to fix the current system rather than blindly throwing technology at it. Something as important as the election process should be very, very simple, not full of cool 'features'.
Silverlock
Does this mean that if we have Back Orifice, we get as many votes as we want?
[click][click][click]...
"What are you doing?"
"Making damn sure Jello Biafra wins this one."
Silverlock
First of all, I am a linux geek and I honestly don't know much about Windows security. However, if it works as well as everything else in Windows then it's a wonder your average 2yo can't take over an NT domain.
:P
That said, this is my personal experience with Windows' granular security. I work graveyards at a national ISP in the network operations center. In the daytime my computer (running NT) is used by an admin. Of course a peon like me can't have full access to an admin's machine, so it has been locked down in my profile. As it stands, I can't use corporate mail because I can't log in to the exchange server. I can't install anything. I can't use AIM because I don't have access to my own buddy lists. I can't use ICQ because I can't install it. I can put files on my desktop but then I can't delete them unless I drop into a dos shell. Etc, etc, etc.
Perhaps this is all due to the incompetence of the admin. However, when I look at how easy permissions are to set up in Linux, I have to think that either NT permissions are crap or I am being actively sabotaged by the admin. The admin is a pretty nice guy, so...
silver
PS - The CEO made the decision to put NT in the NOC, not the admins. They all have Linux or BeOS as well.
I was given the impression in school that the interview was an acceptable means by which to acquire information. If you are writing a paper on the development of the Internet, why would you not consult people who actually do some of the work? /. would seem to be an incredible resource in that regard.
I'm sure that the people that are complaining here are the same people that complain in some way about every topic. I know I shouldn't respond to trolls and flamers, but I just couldn't resist in this case.
I hope you do well with your paper.